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The Sound of Music (1965) dir. Robert Wise
The heart pirates.. I care them
reunited 👒🏴☠️💚
It's Bon-Chan's Birthday! <3
Why do people still say “this doesn’t fit my blog theme but I had to reblog anyway”? It’s almost 2018. Who gives a fuck. Who even has a coherent blog anymore
Reblog if you’ve never had a coherent blog and got no intention of starting that shit now
When they said it might sing, this wasn’t exactly what I had in mind.
I think my dinner is possessed.
Transfem Peter Parker drawings I forgot to post
My stupid contribution to Petra Parker
PAM PARKER 🏳️⚧️🕷️
Russia's Supreme Court has removed the country's only anti-war political party from the ballot for next month's legislative elections.
Aug. 13 (UPI) -- Russia's Supreme Court has removed Yabloko, the country's only anti-war political party, from the ballot for next month's legislative elections, drawing international and domestic condemnation.
The decision by the Russia nSupreme Court was made Monday ahead of the Sept. 18 Duma legislative elections, with Yabloko, the social-liberal Russian United Democratic Party, releasing a copy of the decision Wednesday. According to the document, Yabloko was banned from the election on allegations that it received donations from Russian nationals who had themselves received the money from abroad.
Other reasons included material supporting Yabloko spreading on social media networks, specifically Instagram and Facebook, blocked or restricted in Russia, as well as copyright infringement.
"Yabloko firmly rejects all the accusations brought against it and believes that they were convincingly disproved in the course of the proceedings," the party said in a statement.
"The party intends to prove it is right at the appeal stage."
It claimed the real reason it was banned was for its anti-war campaign, which it is running under the slogan "For Peace and Freedom."
Russia has long been a target of criticism for its repression of civil society, but the United Nations and human rights advocates say those campaigns have intensified since it invaded Ukraine in February 2023 and amid the subsequent ongoing war. Among accusations, the Kremlin is accused of politically persecuting Alexei Navalny, vocal critic and opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, resulting in his February death at a penal colony.
The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday called on Russia to overturn the ban.
"We are deeply concerned about the barring of Yabloko, one of Russia's oldest political parties, from the September parliamentary elections," it said in a statement.
On Tuesday, European Commission spokesperson Anitta Hipper described the court's decision during a press conference in Brussels as further evidence of Russia's attacks against fundamental freedoms and continued pressure on opposition figures.
"This basically shows that Russia is afraid because they truly need to eliminate any dissenting voice," she said.
"So, by silencing the political opposition, the Kremlin is also removing any domestic voice that has been critical of its unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine. I would say this comes as a surprise, but it's not."
State Duma deputy Alexey Zhuravlyov, chairman of the Russian nationalist Rodina Party, filed the lawsuit with the Supreme Court, according to state-run TASS news agency.
Griigory Yavlinsk, founder and former chairman of Yabloko, urged Russians to continue supporting the party in spite of the court's decision, saying "this is not about Yabloko's fate -- it is about Russia's fate."
"Voting for Yabloko is an opportunity for Russian citizens to declare the need for an alternative," he said in a statement on Telegram. "It is an opportunity to say: In Russia, more and more people believe that preserving human life should be the political priority and that reaching a cease-fire agreement should be the goal."
Yulia Navalnaya, Navalny's wife, echoed Hipper's sentiment that by banning Yabloko, the Putin regime is showing its fear.
"They saw what they very much did not want to see: people are beginning to unite," she said in a statement.
According to Navalnaya, the Putin regime hoped Yabloko would run but net little support so it could boast it was not popular. But instead, it had to change tactics and ban the party and show the public that there is nothing they can do about it.
"But what happens if we do not give up? If we keep speaking out, uniting and supporting one another?" she said.
"We have a Plan B too."
in case folk outside the UK aren't abreast of our news, the British press just hounded a black academic to death
a rough timeline of events (from memory, there may be inaccuracies, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)
Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic
the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal
this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately
somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large
following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor
today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea
the British tabloid press remains, and will always be, fucking evil
Jason Arday’s death is a huge loss, not only for people of colour pursuing positions in academia, but also for neurodivergent/ autistic folxs. The fact that Cambridge did visibly nothing to protect Dr. Arday from the excessive scrutiny he was placed under is incredibly frightening. I’ve disliked Cambridge as an institution for a while now, but this — this I have no words for.
brownies when you sift powdered sugar on them
Some superbat
Bisan says that among all the aid organisations working in North Gaza right now, Ele Elna Elak is one of the most effective, geared towards resolving the water scarcity and making clean water and vegetables available to Gazans.
Donate if you can and share.
These are quotes from Refaat Ibrahim's piece "Green and Yellow: Two lines that separate me from my land." The placement of the military bases on the map are taken from the Al Jazeera article published August 13, 2026, "Israel trucks out Gaza’s rubble to ‘hide genocide’ and ‘redraw the map’" Zionism is a genocidal settler-colonial project, and they will not cease until defeated. The people of Gaza are surrounded. They need our support to survive.
My friend Mahrah (@freepaleatine955) lives in Gaza with her family. She takes care of her elderly parents, and relies on donations to her campaign for survival. Please donate. My wife @cannilyuncanny hosts her family's fundraiser (vetted by @90-ghost, shared by fairuzfan), and sends wire transfers directly to her. This is her family's sole lifeline.
Mahrah (@freepaleatine955) wrote yesterday, "The reality here is far worse than anything I can write. Words cannot convey the scale of what we are experiencing, and no single photograph can show what it is like to watch an entire city collapse before our eyes." Please read her full post. Then, donate.
if i were a respected british actor with any principles at all i would simply not agree to a project whose earnings will have material consequences for trans people but maybe i'm built differently
another one bites the dust
List of other people who also suck for this reason:
Bill Nighy
Hugh Laurie
James McAvoy
John Lithgow
Katherine Parkinson
Keira Knightley
Kit Harrington
Leo Woodall
Mackenzie Crook
Mathew MacFadyen
Matt Berry
Nick Frost
Paul Whitehouse
Peter Serafinowicz
Riz Ahmed
Shirley Bassey
Simon Armitage
Simon Pegg
Stephen Fry
Stephen Mangan
Warwick Davis
Black Mirror director Ally Pankiw rejected an opportunity to work on HBO's Harry Potter series because of J.K. Rowling's views on gender.
"It simply is this easy to say no to funding transphobia"
